This Week's Work

Monday

In Class:

• Skills Packet work time
  
• Risk vs Return WKST PDF
  
• Savings accounts/Money Market Accounts and CD's
• What is the FDIC?
• Calculating Simple Interest Notes and Exercises
  

HW:

• Skills Packet 2 Due 2/12
• Today's work if not completed.
  

Tuesday

Classwork:

• Working on Skills Packet 2
• Finishing Calculating Simple Interest
  
• Compound Interest: How is is just a Simple Interest Calculation
  

HW:

• Skills Packet 2 Due 2/12
• Today's Work if not completed
  

Wednesday

Classwork:

• Working on Skills Packet 2
• More practice with compound interest calculations
• APY vs APR
  

HW:

• Skills Packet 2 Due 2/12

  
  

Thursday

Classwork:

• Working on Skills Packet 2
• Interest Calculations Practice
  

HW:

• Skills Packet 2 Due 2/12

Friday

Due Skills Packet 2

Classwork

• Quiz on Interest Calculations
  

• Finishing Skills Packet 2

No HW

Monday

In Class:

• Working on Skills Packet 2
• Budgeting and setting up an expense sheet

HW:

• Skills Packet 2 Due 2/15
• Case Study 1 Due Friday 2/5
  
• Kiplinger Article on Emergency Funds Due Wednesday 2/3
  

Tuesday

Classwork:

• Working on Skills Packet 2
• Balancing a Check book and writing checks
  

HW:

• Skills Packet 2 Due 2/15
• Case Study 1 Due Friday 2/5
  
• Kiplinger Article on Emergency Funds Due Wednesday 2/3

• Case Study 1 Due Friday 2/5

Wednesday

Classwork:

• Working on Skills Packet 2
• Balancing a Check book and writing checks(day 2)
  

HW:

• Case Study 1 Due Friday 2/5

Thursday

Classwork:

Overdraft Fees video.

Savings accounts (Simple Interest vs compound interest)

Practice Quiz to end class.

HW:

• Finish Work on the Percentage/Exponent Basic Skills packet.
• Case Study 1 Due Friday 2/5

Friday

• Case Study 1 Due at the beginning of class

Classwork

• Quiz on Checking Accounts
• Savings accounts/Money Market Accounts and CD's
  
• What is the FDIC?
• CD laddering
  

No HW

Monday

Snow day

Tuesday

Income/Expense Tracking sheet is due today.

Classwork:

• Working on Skills review
• Practice identifying goals
• Practice Calculating withholdings

HW:

• Work on the Percentage/Exponent Basic Skills packet.
• Study for quiz if needed.
  

Wednesday

Classwork:

• Quiz on work so far

• Working on Skills review

HW:

• Work on the Percentage/Exponent Basic Skills packet.
• Finding an apartment to rent assignment. Due Friday 1/28.
• Finishing Skills review

Thursday

Classwork:

• Work on the Percentage/Exponent Basic Skills packet
• Reading a W-2 Form
• Completing a Federal 1040EZ tax return form
• How much does it cost to have someone complete your income tax forms?

HW:

• Finish Work on the Percentage/Exponent Basic Skills packet.
  

Friday

• Skills Review is due at the beginning of class
  

• Finding an apartment assignment is due.
  

Classwork

• Setting up a budget

Needs:

1. Renting
2. Food
3. Utilities
4. Automobile costs
5. Communication
   

Wants

• Entertainment
• Vacations

No HW

Monday

Tuesday

Classwork:

• Course Expectations
• Setting Goals (handout)
• Skills Review

• Get the course expectations sheets signed (due Friday 1/22)
  
• Start tracking Income/Expenses (due Tuesday 1/27)
• Work on the Percentage/Exponent Basic Skills packet.
  

Wednesday

• Review Classroom expectations
• Reading a pay check stub
• Vocabulary
• Writing your own example of a pay check stub
• What are  W-4 and a W-2 forms?

• Get the course expectations sheets signed (due Friday 1/22)
  
• Tracking Income/Expenses (due Tuesday 1/27)
• Work on the Percentage/Exponent Basic Skills packet.
  

• Warm-up
• More Pay check work
  

• Get the course expectations sheets signed (due Friday 1/22)
  
• Tracking Income/Expenses (due Tuesday 1/27)
• Work on the Percentage/Exponent Basic Skills packet.
  

• Warm-up
• See where we're at
• Creating your own Pay stub for a quiz
  
• Filling out a 1040EZ tax form
  

• Tracking Income/Expenses (due Tuesday 1/27)
• Work on the Percentage/Exponent Basic Skills packet.